A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . cient, in Warren County, Ohio, is a goodexample.—F. S. D. HINDPOST. Same as Heelpost, as in thepartitions between stalls in a stalile. HINDU ARCHITECTURE. That of tliestyles of building in India wiiich prevails themost widely throughout the , andshows the least influence of foreign this sense it might be considered to includethe Buddhist and Jaina as well as the laterones, Init not the Mohammedan architecture ofwhich the great centre is at Agra. Accordingto a more strict definition,
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . cient, in Warren County, Ohio, is a goodexample.—F. S. D. HINDPOST. Same as Heelpost, as in thepartitions between stalls in a stalile. HINDU ARCHITECTURE. That of tliestyles of building in India wiiich prevails themost widely throughout the , andshows the least influence of foreign this sense it might be considered to includethe Buddhist and Jaina as well as the laterones, Init not the Mohammedan architecture ofwhich the great centre is at Agra. Accordingto a more strict definition, the term would ex-clude the Buddhist and Jaina buildings as wellas the Mohannnedan buildings, and would in-clude only that architecture which has takenshape since the almost complete expulsion fromIndia of the BudcUiist religion in all its seems evident that no accurate use of theterm exists as applied to architecture. (SeeBuddhist; Dravidian; India, Architecture of;Jaina.) — R. S. 381 HINGEHINGE. A connection used to attach and su|i]iort u member orbe movable ;ui about. Wrought-iron Orna-mental Hinges ofChurch Door, Sijj- ZIG. structure so that it mayI pivot ; as a door, sash,table leaf, or the movable membermay Ije hung by meansof the hinge to a fixedsupport as a frame orjami), or to another mov-able piece. In its common form,a hinge consists of twoflaps or leaves of metal,each of which has oneedge bent abcmt a jiin,wholly or in part; sucha portion, or both to-gether, forming thekiuickle. The pin thusforms a ])ivot aboutwhich one flaj) is free toturn when the other ispermanently simplest form ofhinge may be formedliy a hook permanently fixed, as the stationarymember, and a ring secured to the movablemember. — F. B. H. Bliiid Door Hiiige. A hinge designed esjie-cially for a. blinil door; usually one of a pair of(loul:)le-acting hinges on the principle of thehook and eye hinge. The s]iccial feature ofthe device is in the lower hinge, of which
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